Exodus 2
JPS Tanakh (Jewish Publication Society, 1917)
Clementine Vulgate, 1598
1And there went a man of the house of Levi, and took to wife a daughter of Levi.
1Egressus est post hæc vir de domo Levi: et accepit uxorem stirpis suæ.
2And the woman conceived, and bore a son; and when she saw him that he was a goodly child, she hid him three months.
2Quæ concepit, et peperit filium: et videns eum elegantem, abscondit tribus mensibus.
3And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch; and she put the child therein, and laid it in the flags by the river's brink.
3Cumque jam celare non posset, sumpsit fiscellam scirpeam, et linivit eam bitumine ac pice: posuitque intus infantulum, et exposuit eum in carecto ripæ fluminis,
4And his sister stood afar off, to know what would be done to him.
4stante procul sorore ejus, et considerante eventum rei.
5And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to bathe in the river; and her maidens walked along by the river-side; and she saw the ark among the flags, and sent her handmaid to fetch it.
5Ecce autem descendebat filia Pharaonis ut lavaretur in flumine: et puellæ ejus gradiebantur per crepidinem alvei. Quæ cum vidisset fiscellam in papyrione, misit unam e famulabus suis: et allatam
6And she opened it, and saw it, even the child; and behold a boy that wept. And she had compassion on him, and said: 'This is one of the Hebrews' children.'
6aperiens, cernensque in ea parvulum vagientem, miserta ejus, ait: De infantibus Hebræorum est hic.
7Then said his sister to Pharaoh's daughter: 'Shall I go and call thee a nurse of the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for thee?'
7Cui soror pueri: Vis, inquit, ut vadam, et vocem tibi mulierem hebræam, quæ nutrire possit infantulum?
8And Pharaoh's daughter said to her: 'Go.' And the maiden went and called the child's mother.
8Respondit: Vade. Perrexit puella et vocavit matrem suam.
9And Pharaoh's daughter said unto her: 'Take this child away, and nurse it for me, and I will give thee thy wages.' And the woman took the child, and nursed it.
9Ad quam locuta filia Pharaonis: Accipe, ait, puerum istum, et nutri mihi: ego dabo tibi mercedem tuam. Suscepit mulier, et nutrivit puerum: adultumque tradidit filiæ Pharaonis.
10And the child grew, and she brought him unto Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son. And she called his name Moses, and said: 'Because I drew him out of the water.'
10Quem illa adoptavit in locum filii, vocavitque nomen ejus Moyses, dicens: Quia de aqua tuli eum.
11And it came to pass in those days, when Moses was grown up, that he went out unto his brethren, and looked on their burdens; and he saw an Egyptian smiting a Hebrew, one of his brethren.
11In diebus illis postquam creverat Moyses, egressus est ad fratres suos: viditque afflictionem eorum, et virum ægyptium percutientem quemdam de Hebræis fratribus suis.
12And he looked this way and that way, and when he saw that there was no man, he smote the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand.
12Cumque circumspexisset huc atque illuc, et nullum adesse vidisset, percussum Ægyptium abscondit sabulo.
13And he went out the second day, and, behold, two men of the Hebrews were striving together; and he said to him that did the wrong: 'Wherefore smitest thou thy fellow?'
13Et egressus die altero conspexit duos Hebræos rixantes: dixitque ei qui faciebat injuriam: Quare percutis proximum tuum?
14And he said: 'Who made thee a ruler and a judge over us? thinkest thou to kill me, as thou didst kill the Egyptian?' And Moses feared, and said: 'Surely the thing is known.'
14Qui respondit: Quis te constituit principem et judicem super nos? num occidere me tu vis, sicut heri occidisti Ægyptium? Timuit Moyses, et ait: Quomodo palam factum est verbum istud?
15Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to slay Moses. But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and dwelt in the land of Midian; and he sat down by a well.
15Audivitque Pharao sermonem hunc, et quærebat occidere Moysen: qui fugiens de conspectu ejus, moratus est in terra Madian, et sedit juxta puteum.
16Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters; and they came and drew water, and filled the troughs to water their father's flock.
16Erant autem sacerdoti Madian septem filiæ, quæ venerunt ad hauriendam aquam: et impletis canalibus adaquare cupiebant greges patris sui.
17And the shepherds came and drove them away; but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock.
17Supervenere pastores, et ejecerunt eas: surrexitque Moyses, et defensis puellis, adaquavit oves earum.
18And when they came to Reuel their father, he said: 'How is it that ye are come so soon to-day?'
18Quæ cum revertissent ad Raguel patrem suum, dixit ad eas: Cur velocius venistis solito?
19And they said: 'An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds, and moreover he drew water for us, and watered the flock.'
19Responderunt: Vir ægyptius liberavit nos de manu pastorum: insuper et hausit aquam nobiscum, potumque dedit ovibus.
20And he said unto his daughters: 'And where is he? Why is it that ye have left the man? call him, that he may eat bread.'
20At ille: Ubi est? inquit: quare dimisistis hominem? vocate eum ut comedat panem.
21And Moses was content to dwell with the man; and he gave Moses Zipporah his daughter.
21Juravit ergo Moyses quod habitaret cum eo. Accepitque Sephoram filiam ejus uxorem:
22And she bore a son, and he called his name Gershom; for he said: 'I have been a stranger in a strange land.'
22quæ peperit ei filium, quem vocavit Gersam, dicens: Advena fui in terra aliena. Alterum vero peperit, quem vocavit Eliezer, dicens: Deus enim patris mei adjutor meus eripuit me de manu Pharaonis.
23And it came to pass in the course of those many days that the king of Egypt died; and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up unto God by reason of the bondage.
23Post multum vero tempore mortuus est rex Ægypti: et ingemiscentes filii Israël, propter opera vociferati sunt: ascenditque clamor eorum ad Deum ab operibus.
24And God heard their groaning, and God remembered His covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
24Et audivit gemitum eorum, ac recordatus est fœderis quod pepigit cum Abraham, Isaac et Jacob.
25And God saw the children of Israel, and God took cognizance of them.
25Et respexit Dominus filios Israël et cognovit eos.
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